Lea

Lea or LEA may refer to:

Places

Australia

• Lea River, Tasmania, Australia
• Lake Lea, Tasmania, from which the Lea River flows

England

• Lea, Cheshire, a civil parish
• Lea, a settlement in the civil parish of Dethick, Lea and Holloway, Derbyshire
• Lea, Herefordshire, a village and civil parish
• Lea, Lancashire, a village
• Lea, Lincolnshire, a small village and civil parish
• Lea, Wiltshire, a village
• River Lea, a river in southern England

Spain

• Lea River (Biscay), a river in Biscay, Basque Country

United States

• Lea County, New Mexico

People

• Lea (given name)
• Lea (surname)
• Lea baronets, a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom

Education

• Lea College, a defunct private liberal arts college in Albert Lea, Minnesota, United States
• Local education agency, a public school district or public charter school in the United States
• Local education authority, the part of a council in England or Wales responsible for education within that council's jurisdiction

Entertainment

• Léa, a 2011 French film
• Lea (album), by Lea Salonga
• Lea (film), a 1997 Czech drama directed by Ivan Fíla
• "Lea", a song by Toto from Fahrenheit

Government and politics

• Labour Electoral Association, British Liberal-Labour organisation
• Law enforcement agency, or law enforcement authority in North America
• Local electoral area, a district for local elections in Ireland
• Local education agency, a commonly used synonym for a school district

Military

• Operation Lea, a French Union operation during the First Indochina War
• USS Lea (DD-118), a destroyer that served during both World Wars

Technology

• Load effective address, an assembly language instruction
• LEA, a General Motors car engine; see GM Ecotec engine
• LEA, a Honda car engine; see Honda L engine

Other uses

• LEA (cipher), a cryptographic block cipher
• Lea (insect), a genus of bush cricket in the subfamily Pseudophyllinae
• LEA proteins, proteins that protect against desiccation and freezing
• Lea (unit), a variable and obsolete measure of length
• Laredo Energy Arena, a hockey stadium in Laredo, Texas, United States
• LEA, New York Stock Exchange symbol for the Lear Corporation, an American automotive parts supplier
• lea, ISO 639-3 code for the Shabunda Lega language, spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• LEA, abbreviation for Leading Edge Aerospace, a leading US based Wichita, KS Composite tooling manufacturer

See also

• Small River Lea, a tributary of the River Lea
• Leah (disambiguation)
• Lee (disambiguation)
• Leigh (disambiguation)
• LEAS (disambiguation)
• Justice Lea (disambiguation)